Today's News

The main span of the old Milton-Madison Bridge is scheduled to be demolished on Wednesday, July 17, the first in a series of blasts to bring down the 2,427-foot-long steel structure. The blast will require the temporary closing of the adjacent new bridge that carries US 421 across the Ohio River between Milton, Ky., and Madison, Ind.

Television interviewer and journalist Larry King describes three farmers who gather daily in a field during a horrible drought. The men are down on their knees, looking upward and praying the skies will open and pour forth a much-needed rain.

At the end of each legislative session, there is understandably a lot of discussion about what the General Assembly has passed.

Although not given as much fanfare, the early to middle part of summer is an important period as well, because – other than those relatively rare cases when there is a specific enactment date or an emergency clause – that is when all legislation actually takes effect. This year, that date fell on June 25.

Thirty-three years ago, I was born at Carroll County Memorial Hospital, and ever since that day I have been proud to call Carroll County my home. I went to law school in 2002 and graduated in 2005. That is the only period of time that I have not resided in Carroll County, but this has always been home.

Sure, I have had my share of frustrations living here — who hasn’t? However, when I graduated law school, I knew this is where I wanted to come back to, where I wanted to work, live and raise my family.

Fiscal Court approved two executive orders extending agreements with emergency-service providers and approved a proposed rate schedule adjustment for Carroll County Emergency Medical Services for 2013 at its July 5 meeting.

Rates for all ambulance calls were raised by 5 percent, as recommended by SDI, which processes claims for the county EMS department. The company advises annual rate increases to stay in line with approved rates used by Medicare and commercial insurance companies for reimbursement rates paid on behalf of the patient.

Code Enforcement Officer John Welch reported to council that he is continuing to look into the berm that caused the stop work order at the Bishop’s Trace subdivision on Schuermann Street. The berm, which is two feet higher than it was originally engineered to be, is causing a drainage issue on Herb Kinman’s adjacent properties.